Studies in the Morpho-Syntax of Greek

Description

The volume presents a collection of papers of recent generative work on Modern Greek morpho-syntax. The book is divided into three parts. Part I of the book deals with argument alternations, part II with clitics and part III with the syntax and semantics of free relatives. The book will be interesting for scholars working on Greek but also in theoretical linguistics, as it exemplifies how the study of Greek feeds the development of generative theory.The issues discussed in the book are currently highly relevant for the development of a satisfactory theory of comparative syntax as well as the interface between syntax and morphology and syntax and semantics. Thus the analyses put forth here will contribute to the elaboration of such a theory and to our understanding of cross-linguistic variation. Introduction … 1 Artemis Alexiadou PART I: ARGUMENT ALTERNATIONS IN MODERN GREEK Chapter 1 … 14 The syntax of goals and beneficiaries in Standard Modern Greek John Bowers and Effi Georgala Chapter 2 … 47 Greek ditransitive structures: evidence against dative shift Pagona-Niki Efstathopoulou Chapter 3 …71 Morpho-syntactic restrictions on argument alternations: Reflexive verbs in the Greek language Dimitra Papangeli Chapter 4 … 106 The diachrony of the Greek anticausative morphology Nikolaos Lavidas PART II: THE ROLE OF CLITICIZATION IN MODERN GREEK Chapter 1 … 138 Clitics and transitivity Anna Roussou and Ianthi-Maria Tsimpli Chapter 2 … 175 The syntax-morphology interface is at the edge: evidence from Greek clitics Marios Mavrogiorgos PART III: FREE RELATIVES IN MODERN GREEK Chapter 1 … 222 The syntactic and semantic properties of free relatives in Modern Greek Artemis Alexiadou and Spyridoula Varlokosta Chapter 2 … 251 Free relatives in Greek: the interaction between Case (Mis)matches and relativization strategies Evangelia Daskalaki Chapter 3 … 294 Case conflict in Greek Free relatives Vassilios Spyropoulos List of Contributors … 314